Little Hedgehog is back with another magical adventure! It's winter & it won't stop snowing " Oh no" Little Hedgehog cries "I hope Mouse isn't snowed in too!" With a wriggle he pulls himself out of his window & SPLAT! into a big snowdrift He sets off into the woods to check on her
- & so begins a very snowy rescue! Everyone's favourite hedgehog (and woolly red hat!) returns in the ninth book of the best-selling Little Hedgehog series The perfect Christmas gift for little children
- they will love stroking the fuzzy textures throughout!

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Eighteen individuals throughout history whose entire lives unfold simultaneously Comprised entirely of doublepage spreads split into eighteen panels with each panel featuring one character&&s life cartoonist Ray Fawkes has artfully crafted eighteen linear stories into one non-linear masterpiece ...

Today our minds our emotions our relationships & our bodies are out of kilter We know it but we tend to ignore it until something brings us up short
- a worrying diagnosis a broken relationship or simply an inability to function harmoniously in everyday life When things are a little off we read a self-help book When they're really bad we bring in oncologists to address cancer neurologists to repair the brain & psychologists to help us understand our family of origin But this fragmented approach to health is merely a stopgap To truly heal we need to return to the original recipe for wellness discovered by shamans millennia ago One Spirit Medicine Through One Spirit Medicine the shamans found that they could grow a new body that allowed them to live in extraordinary health Cancer dementia & heart disease were rare The shamans of old were truly masters of prevention Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a medical anthropologist & on his own journey back from the edge of death acclaimed shamanic teacher Alberto Villoldo shows you how to-detoxify the brain & gut with superfoods-work with your luminous energy fields to heal your body-shed disempowering stories from the past & pave the way for rebirth Using the principles & practices in this book you can feel better in a few days begin to clear your mind & heal your brain in a week & in six weeks be on your way to a new body
- one that heals rapidly retains its youthful vitality & keeps you connected to Spirit to the earth & to a renewed sense of purpose in your life

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It is Midsummer's Eve Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque But unknown to them they are being watched Each is killed by a single bullet Soon afterwards one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered Is it the same killer & what could the connection be? In this investigation Wallander is always tantalisingly one step behind ...

In summer 1927 America had a booming stock market a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest) a devastating flood of the Mississippi a sensational murder trial & an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures the invention of television the peak of Al Capone's reign of terror the horrifying bombing of a school in Michigan the thrillingly improbable return to greatness of over-the-hill baseball player Babe Ruth & an almost impossible amount more In this hugely entertaining book Bill Bryson spins a tale of brawling adventure reckless optimism & delirious energy With the trademark brio wit & authority that make him Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction he brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age took centre stage & changed the world ...

Rivalries & romance in a Tuscan paradise A relaxing writers' retreat? If only! Perfect holiday reading from Domenica de Rosa author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series under the name Elly Griffiths Previously published as SUMMER SCHOOLPatricia Wilson's carefully composed ads for the writers' retreat she runs at her thirteenth-century Italian castle promise so much But while the splendour of their surroundings & chef Aldo's melanzane never fail to wow the guests huge maintenance bills & bad news from the bank threaten to close Patricia down It's make or break time for the Castello Each of her seven aspiring authors arrives with the inevitable baggage alongside their unpublished manuscripts But this August something is different & soon lifelong spinster Mary is riding on the back of Aldo's vespa & smouldering odd-job man Fabio has set more than one heart racing As temperatures rise the writers gossip flirt & gently polish their prose by the pool But with ghosts scorpions & some unexpected visitors to contend with one thing's for sure neither the Castello nor Patricia has ever seen a summer like this ...

When Ted falls out of bed three tearaway mice whisk him off on a breathtaking adventure They zoom around in fast cars go on a balloon ride & climb a building-block mountain It's all very exciting but will Ted ever get back to his bed? One ted Falls Out of Bed's counting theme is woven perfectly into a magical rhythmic text by the former Children's Laureate & author of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson & is beautifully illustrated by Anna Currey ...

This is a completely original version of the " Arabian Nights Stories" by award-winning author Geraldine Mc Caughrean In order to delay her inevitable execution Queen Shaharazad tells her murdering husband King Shahryar a wonderfully exciting story every night The King is used to a new wife every day only to put her to death the following day but finds himself so intrigued in the magical stories Shaharazad tells he can't bring himself to kill her Night after night she tells her wonderful stories until the King starts to realize that he won't be able to live without them ...

One Thousand & One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night & kill her in the morning To survive his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales each night leaving the King in suspense when morning comes prolonging her life for another day Gathered from India Persia & across the great Arab empire these mesmerising stories tell of the real & the supernatural love & marriage power & punishment wealth & poverty & the endless trials & uncertainties of fate Retold by Hanan al-Shaykh One Thousand & One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice ...

This book is a revised updated & greatly expanded version of the authors' " Probability & Random Processes Problems & Solutions" first published in 1992 The 1000 exercises contained within are not merely drill problems but have been chosen to illustrate the concepts illuminate the subject & both inform & entertain the student Topics cover a broad range of subjects including elementary aspects of probability & random variables; sampling; Markov chains; convergence; stationary processes; renewals; queues; Martingales; diffusion; mathematical finance & the Black-Scholes model This text is intended for general use & to serve students as a companion text for elementary intermediate & advanced courses in probability & random processes Useful for anyone needing a large source of problems in these areas & at all levels This book also acts as a companion volume to the new edition of Probability & Random Processes 3e (OUP
- 2001) providing the solutions for the problems & exercises
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